Connotation and Interpretation

noun

• What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression.
  • synonyms: intension
• An idea that is implied or suggested. .

(n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

noun

• A mental representation of the meaning or significance of something.
  • synonyms: reading, version
• The act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance.
  • usage: "her rendition of Milton's verse was extraordinarily moving"
  • synonyms: rendition, rendering
• An explanation that results from interpreting something.
  • usage: "the report included his interpretation of the forensic evidence"
• An explanation of something that is not immediately obvious.
  • usage: "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he annoyed us with his interpreting of parables"; "often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child's intended meaning"
  • synonyms: interpreting, rendition, rendering

• (n.) The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
• (n.) The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream or of an enigma.
• (n.) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
• (n.) The power or explaining.
• (n.) The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

(DoD) A part of the analysis and production phase in the intelligence process in which the significance of information is judged in relation to the current body of knowledge. See also intelligence process.